About

Two things have driven me along my path in life, a curiosity for how things work and a desire to maintain perspective. The former pushed me through engineering studies, complex projects and markets analysis. The later, well that has delivered a wealthy supply of adventures.

I have always seen pleasure in taking things apart, often simply to see what held them together and allowed them to function in the first place. Opportunities to use that understanding to offer analysis or to design a new is a true pleasure. And adding exercises in perspective which provide a hedge against those rigors of analysis and engineering allow me to gain the all-too-easily lost impact on the greater environment of which they operate.

For me, these exercises involve unique environments, foreign to my usual routine. Quests like a mountain top riddled with hazards, objective and subjective, demand personal responsibility for success or failure. And stepping into a foreign world, like a remote village on the Tibetan plateau, void of common language or culture, viewing a simpler way of life with priorities driven by need and not desire, facilitates epiphanies on life at home. These exercises have broadened my perspective in all aspects of my life, applying foreign adventures full circle to my home routine. And it is this which I hope to share though this site.

‘Quien se apura en la Patagonia pierde el tiempo,’ locals say (‘Those who hurry in Patagonia lose time’). We’ll likely be here another week, waiting for the high system to move in and shift our winds around from the South.

These three days are worthy of a full blog post (coming soon): trekking out to Glaciar O’Higgins, staying on a ranch where I was told only twenty a year pass through, in a natural landscape that was right up there with any I’ve seen. Inspiring to experience the traditional subsistence ranching the father and son carry on. The true Patagonia.

If you are going to cross a border, you might as well make it interesting. Argentina / Chile, no phone or computer, only a paper record of who comes and goes. Carried the way too heavy pack for five hours through forest and pass from Lago Desierto to the two home “town” of Candelaria Mancilla.

Alpine climbing Huntington Ravine, Mount Washington, NH. The footage is actually from three different days in Jan-Feb 2012. The climbs include Pinnacle Gully, Damnation Gully and the top-out is from South Gully. Winds on Pinnacle and Damnation were high those two subsequent days in February, upwards of 90 MPH, but conditions throughout most of the climbs were picture perfect, calm and sunny!